Traded a buddy for this pretty nice 27. Box is ragged but grease pencil numbers match. Shipped to Olympic Wholesale in November 1961.
1961 27
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Wow!
What did you have to trade for that? Your firstborn maybe?
What did you have to trade for that? Your firstborn maybe?
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Beautiful example!
Interesting they messed up the s/n on the box and wrote over it.
Interesting they messed up the s/n on the box and wrote over it.
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I had a gun worth 1/2 of this one. He refused to let me give him any boot. I was at an event this week and saw more
Guns given away than sold. It’s good to have good friends.
That's a nice one.
Just how did S&W get the box end printing upside down on "6-Inch Barrel"? I've never seen that before.
Just how did S&W get the box end printing upside down on "6-Inch Barrel"? I've never seen that before.
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Me either. But this is the first box of this vintage I have acquired.
TN_Raven27
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Didn’t notice that. Strange.
The box has a lot going on.
Maybe the guy doing boxes that day sneaked a pint into the factory.
BillBro
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Absolutely spectacular!
Nice! 
Congratulations, that's a beauty! Interesting that it has a red ramp front sight. I thought that the 6" versions usually had a Patridge sight, but the grease pencil indicates it came special order with the RR/WO. Does the grease pencil look like original S&W factory writing because it has a lot of information that I'm not used to seeing on the bottom of a box? It's a very nice Model 27! Enjoy!
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Not sure. My first no dash and first box of this vintage. Not sure if the front sights were pinned or not. The SN marking looks right but has a number correction. And I have not seen options written on bottom of box. I am sure someone with more knowledge than me will offer input. The gun itself is very nice. The box is pretty ragged.
Very nice 27 no dash. I was fortunate enough to find a no dash several years ago with a 6 1/2" barrel. Enjoy.
My 27 ND has the Baughman ramp front sight, but it's a 4". I'm sure S&W would build one like your 6" with the ramp, if someone ordered it.
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Great gun
Beautiful gun Gary, this similar gun shipped eight years earlier to Rex
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I did notice the blade is pinned on this not the ramp like the pre model guns. Not sure it left that way. Anyone know if no dash guns had pinned blades?
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My no dash was shipped in July of 1961. My front sight is pinned with two pins through the rib. The ramp and blade sight is all one piece. The pins are ground even with the rib and can't be seen in pictures, but they are there. Serial # is S208803. It is a 5" barrel, so who knows when what barrels had which pins from whenever they were made.
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Very nice 27s in this thread!
As kscharlie said pins were usually polished flush prior to bluing in the late fifties and beyond.
Here’s my 5” 27 no dash which shipped January 1961. In the closeup of the front sight you can make out the pins on the sight and the base.
As kscharlie said pins were usually polished flush prior to bluing in the late fifties and beyond.
Here’s my 5” 27 no dash which shipped January 1961. In the closeup of the front sight you can make out the pins on the sight and the base.
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Nice score. Good buddy.
They are factory Rosewood targets that letter to the gun
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Nov 1961 - my birth month and year! Which day did it ship?
Nice grab fellow no dash bro!
Mine shows two blind pins holding in the ramp and one holding in the sight. In this photos it’s a little hard to see the ramp pins.
Mine shows two blind pins holding in the ramp and one holding in the sight. In this photos it’s a little hard to see the ramp pins.
My camera fought me so hard, but I was finally able to get a shot that shows all three pins in my front sight. 
S199420. The seller said it shipped in1959 but I don’t have a letter or box or anything.
S199420. The seller said it shipped in1959 but I don’t have a letter or box or anything.
One could speculate that the gun was a special order as it is not the normal configuration for what shipped back then. Only a letter will tell for sure, but if it was a special order, maybe a letter will tell who ordered it.
My S199602 dates to December 1 1960, is your serial stamped on the cylinder?
This one is S198350. Five inch, TT, TH, RR, w/Cokes. Cylinder is numbered but not barrel. Front sight is flush-pinned & polished. I can not see a pin visible on blade but only the two pins base to rib. BUT, with S&W bluing, if you can't see it does not mean it's not there. Guessing 1960 shipped?? but never lettered.
Excuse my poor photography. !%^$#@& lighting, old camera (and lack of skill)
Excuse my poor photography. !%^$#@& lighting, old camera (and lack of skill)
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Mine is, so much for an easy cutoff to when that stopped.
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